Artist Talk: Richelle Bear Hat

Artist Talk: Richelle Bear Hat

Friday June 7  11:00 am

Coutts Centre

Richelle Bear Hat is the AMAAS Artist in Residence at the Coutts Centre for Western Heritage. She will be presenting a media artwork responding to the site based on her time spent on the land and learning the language of the landscape. She is a member of Siksika Nation and a Blackfoot person who is making sense of where her body and identity fits into the urban spaces and the traditional territories of her family. There are barriers, seen and unseen, that impact her knowledge of Indigenous practices and her sense of home. Utilizing Blackfoot language as a tool to work against those barriers, she will be acknowledging the land through audio recordings and conversation. Her Indigenous languages have the ability to hold words and communicate care where English has no translation.